Callimachus Hecale
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$130.00 (06)Description
Adrian Hollis's second edition of Callimachus' Hecale includes an English translation of the original Greek text. Twenty years after the first edition appeared in 1990, close study of the Byzantine poets, scholars, and clerics who knew Callimachus' poem intimately has allowed significant progress in our understanding of the poem. Equally valuable are two Byzantine lexicons which clearly had access to an ancient commentary on the Hecale; an Attic vase, which provides our first artistic representation of the myth; and an inscribed Greek elegy from Kandahar, which suggests that Callimachus' `miniature epic' was known to a Greek poet working in that remote bastion of Hellenism - additional proof of the poet's importance within Hellenistic culture.Features
- A new, revised edition of an influential and much admired Greek poem of the third century BC
- Now includes an English translation of all the original Greek text
Reviews
"Hollis' first edition of Callimachus' Hecale had already boosted a lively interest in issues concerning textual criticism, plot reconstruction and interpretation of the poem as a whole. Thus, it is expected that the annotated second edition, with enlarged commentary and English translation, will encourage scholars to explore further aspects of Callimachus' innovative epic that would better accommodate it within the Greek literary tradition." --Classical World
"This is by no means a frivolous exercise of scholarship but rather the outcome of a hard?won progress that owes much to the keenness and talent of the author. Hollis is clearly endowed with a gift for writing commentaries.... The translation of the fragments is accurate and impeccable."-- Konstantinos Spanoudakis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
